View: Inject some blood into India\'s anaemic small businesses?

By Meeta Rajivlochan The Indian policy landscape has long been dominated by a fear of industry growing big — the idea being that ‘big’industries are somehow exploitative and small industries make for a more egalitarian society. Data on the ground shows a different picture.In India, it is the MSMEs that exist at subsistence-level productivity which routinely flout environmental laws,social security laws and labour laws.For own-account enterprises